The Challenger Space Disaster: Is The 7 Crew Secretly Alive?

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Challenger Space Disaster

Most people across the globe remember the horrific NASA Challenger Space Disaster which killed it’s entire crew of 7… but, what if, as a new in-depth analysis contends, it was an elaborate hoax and the famous crew lived?  The notion is, admittedly, a bit extreme to consider for some, however, regardless of what you take from the analysis, the notion in and of itself is intriguing.  Do you think it’s possible 6 of the 7 crew members are still alive?

From the report from Fellowship of The Minds [1]:

If you’re age 40 years or older, you’d probably remember January 28, 1986.

That was day of the Challenger disaster, when the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida at 11:38 EST [2]. All seven crew members were killed, including five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists.

Millions of Americans (17% of the total population) watched the launch live on TV because of Payload Specialist Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher in space. Media coverage of the explosion was extensive: one study reported that 85% of Americans surveyed had heard the news within an hour of the accident.

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We were told that Challenger disintegrated because of a malfunctioning O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed, allowing pressurized burning gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB aft field joint attachment hardware and external fuel tank, leading to the structural failure of the external tank. Aerodynamic forces broke up the orbiter.

The crew compartment and many other vehicle fragments were eventually recovered from the ocean floor after a lengthy search and recovery operation. The exact timing of the death of the crew is unknown; several crew members are known to have survived the initial breakup of the spacecraft. But the shuttle had no escape system, and the impact of the crew compartment with the ocean surface was too violent to be survivable.

The disaster resulted in a 32-month hiatus in NASA’s shuttle program and the formation of the Rogers Commission, a special commission appointed by then President Ronald Reagan to investigate the accident. The commission found NASA’s organizational culture and decision-making processes had been key contributing factors to the accident.

These are the names of Challenger’s 7 crew members:

Francis Richard Scobee, Commander [3]
Michael J. Smith, Pilot [4]
Ronald McNair, Mission Specialist [5]
Ellison Onizuka, Mission Specialist [6]
Judith Resnik, Mission Specialist [7]
Gregory Jarvis, Payload Specialist [8]
Christa McAuliffe, Payload Specialist [9]

But wait!

What if someone were to tell you that most, if not all, of Challenger’s 7 crew members are still alive and thriving in their new professions, contrary to what we’ve been told?

That is the contention of simonshack and other contributors on the chat forum, CluesForum.info [10]. They claim 6 of the 7 Challenger crew members are still alive; some even kept their names. Here’s their evidence. (Note:CluesForum.info referenced a short article by Darrell Foss on Opob News, “Was the Challenger disaster a hoax?,” March 2015, as their first source.[11])

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1. FRANCIS RICHARD SCOBEE, COMMANDER OF CHALLENGER SPACE SHUTTLE

Born on May 19, 1939, Commander Francis Richard Scobee was 46 when he died in the Challenger explosion. He would be 75 years old if he were alive today.

Strangely, there’s a man also named Richard Scobee, the CEO of a Chicago marketing-advertising company called Cows in Trees, who bears a striking resemblance (factoring in the 30-year timelapse) to Commander Richard Scobee — same high forehead, same eyebrows, same wide-set eyes that are slightly tilted down in their outer corners.

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The source of the pic on the right of CEO Richard Scobee is his LinkedIn page [12].

If you go on Cows in Trees’ website, you’ll see an animation of a rocket-powered cow in the sky with swirling smoke shaped like the number 6, much like Space Shuttle Challenger as it was seen on TV exploding in mid-air. Wink, wink. CEO Richard Scobee sure has a sense of humor! /sarc

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2. MICHAEL J. SMITH, PILOT OF CHALLENGER

Born on April 30, 1945, Challenger pilot Michael John Smith was 41 years old when he died in the explosion.

There’s a man also named Michael J. Smith [13], who bears a striking resemblance to astronaut Michael J. Smith — same horizontal eyebrows, same grey-blue eyes, same vertical indentation in the tip of the nose. This Michael J. Smith is a Professor Emeritus (retired) of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose email address is mjsmith@cae.wisc.edu

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Astronaut Michael J. Smith would be 70 years old if he were still alive today. Well, hot diggidy damn, there just happens to be a 69-year-old Michael J. Smith(the professor?) [14] whose addresses include Madison, Wisconsin! (He’s #74 on this LookUpAnyone list. [14])

3. RONALD MCNAIR, CHALLENGER’S MISSION SPECIALIST

Born on Oct. 21, 1950, Challenger’s mission specialist Ronald McNair, the second African-American astronaut, with a Ph.D. in physics, would be 64 years old if he had not perished in the space shuttle explosion. If Ronald (l) were still alive today, he would look just like this pic of his brother, Carl (r).

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Carl McNair [15] is an author, education consultant and inspirational speaker. He is the founder and president emeritus of the Ronald E. McNair Foundation in honor of his brother. Here’s Carl’s LinkedIn page [16]. (Please scroll down to my Update of May 9, 2015, for the results of my search on ancestry.com for the birth record(s) of Carl McNair.)

4. ELLISON ONIZUKA, CHALLENGER MISSION SPECIALIST

Another Challenger mission specialist, Ellison Onizuka [17], the first Japanese-American astronaut, also has a lookalike brother named Claude [18]. Born on June 24, 1946 in Hawaii, Ellison would be 68 years old today if he had not died in the Challenger explosion. If Ellison were still alive, he would look just like this pic of his younger brother Claude — same eyebrows, same eyes, same crow’s feet wrinkles, same nose, even the same hair-parting.

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Claude Onizuka [19] is a Liquor Adjudication Board Member of the Department of Liquor Control, County of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii. (Please scroll down to my Update of May 9, 2015, for the results of my search on ancestry.com for the birth record(s) of Claude Onizuka.)

5. JUDITH RESNIK, CHALLENGER MISSION SPECIALIST

Born on April 5, 1949, Challenger mission specialist Judith Arlene Resnik [7], with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, was the first Jewish American astronaut to go into space and the second female American astronaut. She would be 66 years old today if she had not died in the explosion.

If she were alive today, it is not difficult to imagine that after 29 years, astronaut Judith Resnik would look like Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik at Yale Law School [20] — dark curly hair, dark eyes, same eyebrow shape, same lines on both sides of the face extending up from the jaw.

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Simon shack [21] draws our attention to how both Judith Resnicks’ upper lips form a slight peak (on their left) when they speak:

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I searched Ancestry.com [22] for “Judith Resnik” whose birthday was April 5, 1949 (according to Wikipedia [7]). While there are burials and obituaries for Judith Resnik who was born April 4 or 5, 1949 and died on Jan. 28, 1986 (see below the screenshot I took), I looked through Ancestry.com’s 241 death records for the last name Resnik but cannot find the SSDI for astronaut Judith Resnik or any other Judith Resnik. The only Resnik SSDIs I found are for Gerald Resnik, Paul Resnik, Sharon Resnik, Wulf Resnik, Michael Resnik, Charles Resnik, Stanley Resnik, Gary Resnik, Daniel Resnik, Donald Resnik, and Patricia Resnik. There is no SSDI for Judith Resnik.

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6. SHARON CHRISTA MCAULIFFE, CHALLENGER PAYLOAD SPECIALIST

Born on Sept. 2, 1948, Sharon Christa McAuliffe [9] was a social studies teacher at Concord High School in New Hampshire when she was selected from more than 11,000 applicants to participate in the NASA Teacher in Space Project. If Challenger had not exploded, she would be the first teacher in space. If she had not died in the Challenger disaster, McAuliffe would be 66 years old today.

Well, there’s a Sharon A. McAuliffe [23], an adjunct professor at Syracuse University College of Law, who kinda looks like an older astronaut McAuliffe, factoring in the 30 years timelapse. Look at the cowlick of hair, sweeping from the center of their hairlines to the left side of their foreheads.

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I searched Ancestry.com for the SSDI for “Sharon McAuliffe,” with the birthdate of Sept. 2, 1948. I found grave/burial indexes for Sharon Christa McAuliffe and an SSDI for a Sha McAuliffe. See screenshot I took below:

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Simon shack [10] points us that “It may also be entirely coincidental” that Syracuse law professor Sharon is a cousin of Terry McAuliffe [24], the current governor of Virginia who was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign and chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign [25]. Terry McAuliffe, an advocate of gun control, is also very much concerned about NASA funding issues. See here and here.

In the end we need to ask ourselves this question:

It’s one thing that one of the Challenger’s crew members resembles someone alive today. For that, we can chalk it up to a coincidence.

It’s another thing entirely that SIX members of the Challenger crew have doppelgängers who are alive, in some cases with exactly the same names (Richard Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnick, Sharon McAuliffe). What are the chances of that?

You don’t have to be an expert in mathematics to know that those odds defy statistical probability.

(* THERE IS AN UPDATE TO THE ARTICLE THAT YOU CAN ACCESS BY CLICKING HERE)

Sources:

[1] http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/04/30/are-the-crew-members-of-1986-space-shuttle-challenger-still-alive/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Scobee

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Smith_%28astronaut%29

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McNair

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellison_Onizuka

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Resnik

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Jarvis

[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe

[10] http://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?t=935&p=2395059#p2395059

[11] http://opobnews.com/was-the-challenger-disaster-a-hoax-by-darrell-foss/

[12] https://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-scobee/18/754/238

[13] http://directory.engr.wisc.edu/ie/faculty/smith_michael

[14] http://www.lookupanyone.com/results.php?qf=Michael+&qmi=J&qn=Smith&qs=WI&ReportType=1

[15] http://www.montana.edu/news/12347/founder-of-national-programs-promoting-academic-excellence-to-deliver-msu-s-mlk-lecture-jan-21

[16]https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=17379635&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=xzpD&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2Cidx%3A1-2-2%2CtarId%3A1430418184158%2Ctas%3ACarl%20McNair

[17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellison_Onizuka

[18] http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2012/03/02/space-science-week/

[19] http://www.ncsla.org/Member-information.html?member=208

[20] http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/JResnik.htm

[21] http://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=935&start=720

[22] http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=BMD_DEATH&gss=angs-c&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Judith&gsln=Resnik&gsln_x=1&msbdd=5&msbdm=4&msbdy=1949&_83004003-n_xcl=m&cp=0&MSAV=0&uidh=i2v&so=2

[23] http://law.syr.edu/profile/sharon-mcauliffe1

[24] http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/mcauliffe-sworn-in-as-virginia-governor/2014/01/11/998095f0-7951-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html

[25] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_McAuliffe

 

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51 Comments

    • Prof Bruce Lipton is Greg Jarvis? same voice, same sideways grin, and their birthdates are only 2 mths apart

    • Prof Bruce Lipton is Greg Jarvis? same voice, same sideways grin, and their birthdates are only 2 mths apart

  1. Thomas Free
    Good research 😉 I would like to know WHY they set up this explosion, what was the idea?

  2. Thomas Free
    Good research 😉 I would like to know WHY they set up this explosion, what was the idea?

  3. THINK ABOUT THEIR FAMILY For God Sake!
    They suffered & mourning the death of them… let them Rest In Peace
    Leave their families and them ALONE………….

  4. THINK ABOUT THEIR FAMILY For God Sake!
    They suffered & mourning the death of them… let them Rest In Peace
    Leave their families and them ALONE………….

    • Dumb Americans will never think for themselves and will always be fooled by the Government even when it is obviously in black and white. Educate yourselves don’t be spoon fed.

  5. Everything about the Challenger event was so very hush hush, and secretive, and if I remember correctly their bodies were all in sealed coffins, So no one ever saw their bodies beyond NASA officials. I don’t know if they lived or not, but the information provided does seem like some very amazing coincidences.

    Also one of the previous poster ask why they would have staged the event, and as with so many times in the history of government more money, more funding. Since they had problems to solve, more funding was provided to solve the problem. Of course, much of what the NASA budget has been spent on over the years, has never been disclosed to the public.

  6. Everything about the Challenger event was so very hush hush, and secretive, and if I remember correctly their bodies were all in sealed coffins, So no one ever saw their bodies beyond NASA officials. I don’t know if they lived or not, but the information provided does seem like some very amazing coincidences.

    Also one of the previous poster ask why they would have staged the event, and as with so many times in the history of government more money, more funding. Since they had problems to solve, more funding was provided to solve the problem. Of course, much of what the NASA budget has been spent on over the years, has never been disclosed to the public.

  7. Most of the public is not aware of covert military ops and technology that can wipe memories from the brain. If you’re a NASA “astronaut” likely you were military. If you were military, likely you were subject to MK Ultra or Monarch mind programming (control) from a young age (if your family was military). So that means the black ops gov’t owns you and uses you for their own agenda. These people were nothing more than guinea pigs in a much larger experiment and have been manipulated to keep quiet, or brainwashed into “other” personalities/careers (which is what MK Ultra/Monarch is meant to do). All this will come out soon as disclosure, not long after the financial collapse. Also, alot of these “incidents” were to analyze how much of the public can be controlled or reached by media, as well as MEASURING THE FEAR AND SHOCK REACTION. And what if media is alot of untruths? The black ops gov’t has been studying this for decades. The fact that the “85% of all americans were reached within …. minutes” means, someone was REALLY looking at that logistical data. It’s a hard pill to swallow. Such events have also been used to “establish commissions” and such, or excuses to funnel billions of dollars into “research” or “security” that really gets funneled into other covert military operations. The best news of all though, is that people are WAKING up to this!

  8. Most of the public is not aware of covert military ops and technology that can wipe memories from the brain. If you’re a NASA “astronaut” likely you were military. If you were military, likely you were subject to MK Ultra or Monarch mind programming (control) from a young age (if your family was military). So that means the black ops gov’t owns you and uses you for their own agenda. These people were nothing more than guinea pigs in a much larger experiment and have been manipulated to keep quiet, or brainwashed into “other” personalities/careers (which is what MK Ultra/Monarch is meant to do). All this will come out soon as disclosure, not long after the financial collapse. Also, alot of these “incidents” were to analyze how much of the public can be controlled or reached by media, as well as MEASURING THE FEAR AND SHOCK REACTION. And what if media is alot of untruths? The black ops gov’t has been studying this for decades. The fact that the “85% of all americans were reached within …. minutes” means, someone was REALLY looking at that logistical data. It’s a hard pill to swallow. Such events have also been used to “establish commissions” and such, or excuses to funnel billions of dollars into “research” or “security” that really gets funneled into other covert military operations. The best news of all though, is that people are WAKING up to this!

  9. Having worked at JPL during this event, the consensus among the JPL scientists in Pasadena was that the explosion was real, and that no one could have survived that explosion and crash. The reality of it all was supported by the image analysis work we had to do to help determine the cause of the explosion. And, yes, it was the O-ring that failed.

  10. Having worked at JPL during this event, the consensus among the JPL scientists in Pasadena was that the explosion was real, and that no one could have survived that explosion and crash. The reality of it all was supported by the image analysis work we had to do to help determine the cause of the explosion. And, yes, it was the O-ring that failed.

  11. Interesting.

    But, those are not the same people, obviously.

    Scobee looks very much like astronaut, but the left eye of alive Scobee goes way downwards.

    Michael J. Smith has completely different ears, wider nose at bottom and even eyes are not that much similar.
    Ronald Mcnair has brother Carl.

    Ellison has brother Claude.

    Judith Resnick is completely different woman. There are some similarities, but astronaut Resnick has much bigger eyes and her eyebrows are completely different.

    Sharon – different eyes.

    So, unfortunately, those astronauts are probably dead.

    • You only need to find one of these people still alive to expose it how about Prof Bruce Lipton is Greg Jarvis same voice same sideways grin and their birthdates are just 2mths apart

    • and according to NASA Ellison and Ronald are BOTH twins and yet this was not a story at the time which you can imagine it would have been a big novelty in the media…but it was not

      • Seems like NASA likes recruiting twins for its astronaut program. Recruiting standards is probably more about who you know than what you know… As with life

  12. Interesting.

    But, those are not the same people, obviously.

    Scobee looks very much like astronaut, but the left eye of alive Scobee goes way downwards.

    Michael J. Smith has completely different ears, wider nose at bottom and even eyes are not that much similar.
    Ronald Mcnair has brother Carl.

    Ellison has brother Claude.

    Judith Resnick is completely different woman. There are some similarities, but astronaut Resnick has much bigger eyes and her eyebrows are completely different.

    Sharon – different eyes.

    So, unfortunately, those astronauts are probably dead.

    • You only need to find one of these people still alive to expose it how about Prof Bruce Lipton is Greg Jarvis same voice same sideways grin and their birthdates are just 2mths apart

    • and according to NASA Ellison and Ronald are BOTH twins and yet this was not a story at the time which you can imagine it would have been a big novelty in the media…but it was not

    • Seems like NASA likes recruiting twins for its astronaut program. Recruiting standards is probably more about who you know than what you know… As with life

    • I am a flat earther and can prove its validity if you were seriously curious about it. You can prove it with math and numbers don’t lie(but people do!).

      BTW, natural news won’t let us communicate so if you click on my name or simply reply to me on thedailysheeple I’ll help you, I have very useful info and your comment sounded like you need help and I’ve helped others before.

    • I am a flat earther and can prove its validity if you were seriously curious about it. You can prove it with math and numbers don’t lie(but people do!).

      BTW, natural news won’t let us communicate so if you click on my name or simply reply to me on thedailysheeple I’ll help you, I have very useful info and your comment sounded like you need help and I’ve helped others before.

    • Because the earth is really flat there is no where to go silly. It was an orchestrated hoax just like the moon landing silly. Wake up Americans!!!!!!!

  13. This “in depth” analysis is absolutely horrendous. I worked at the Challenger Center for Space Science Education that was founded on to honor the memories and the mission of these astronauts. I met many of the family members who founded this organization. This is an absolutely disgusting and horrific hoax to even suggest such a thing. Someone is looking for their 15 minutes of fame.

  14. This “in depth” analysis is absolutely horrendous. I worked at the Challenger Center for Space Science Education that was founded to honor the memories and the mission of these astronauts. I met many of the family members who founded this organization. This is an absolutely disgusting and horrific hoax to even suggest such a thing. Someone is looking for their 15 minutes of fame. This is the website you should read https://www.challenger.org/who-we-are/#history

    • You obviously were not that important. Only a few of the elite a handful know the truth. The families aren’t crazy they just fly out to meet them. This is why this is a satanic world and Americans are fun to screw with because only a handful of the ultra elite know this. That is why you people don’t understand MK Ultra and never will, nor understand why there is a video on the earth actually being flat. You all will never understand anything other than what you read see and hear…All lies who doesn’t know by now money is power into a few elite that love to rejoice in seeing the havoc that they can start with dumb Americans.

  15. in the bible it states from the beginning of the world that there was a firmament a point where I have heard pilots say that they know there is a firmament near Antartica and are forbidden to fly there the United Nations knows that as well and no man will ever be allowed to get to the moon landing was a hoax and the director directed eyes wide shut and now he is dead because of it. True Christians know the truth. Man has hidden the truth for years “astronauts are apart of a hidden secret society. The regular man will always believe lies that come out to the “government” they are a devilish greedy people who don’t care about society. 911 was orchestrated by high level ranking officials. However the average American will tell you that you are a lie. One day the real truth will be exposed when people are in Hell wandering why did I ever fall for such foolishness.

    • The Chinese landed a remote probe on the moon and have sent strikingly similar pictures (not identical, can’t be since it landed in a different place) back to Earth. Your tin foil underwear are too tight.

  16. Don’t think they did ‘set it up’ to people asking the logic behind why they would do that…

    More like it happened and they were stuck with it, as most people that research it know it’s all theater anyways.

  17. watch the movie Capricorn one. the evil elites are charged to tell the truth by God, but they do it in sneaky ways thru humor and movies, and entertainment.

  18. Perhaps the shuttle isn’t completely automated and needs one guy to fly it. So that one astronaut you can’t find actually died that day.

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